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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1243541511.jpg?w=1024″] Shakira will be shaking up Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza with a concert on November 28, promoter Rabih Mokbel told the National. It is the only stop in the region during her ongoing world tour. The “Hips Don’t Lie” singer was previously slated to headline Abu Dhabi’s Offlimits Music Festival on November 21. Her…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/newsmakers-banner_baf266.jpg?w=1024″] The auction house Phillips is currently going through a major executive shake-up as several high-profile senior leaders have exited the company this summer, as ARTnews reported last week. Among them is Jonathan Crockett, Phillips’ outgoing Asia chairman who will step down on September 2 after leading the firm’s regional expansion for over…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/andreessen-griffin.jpg?w=1024″] Some $1.2 billion have been funneled into this year’s midterm elections, with just over 12 percent of that being linked to two of the world’s top collectors: Marc Andreessen and Kenneth C. Griffin. Both Andreessen and Griffin rank among the top 20 of megadonors to the midterms, a group that leans heavily…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/NM-7736.jpg?w=755″] An altarpiece by Italian Mannerist painter Lavinia Fontana has been purchased by the National Museum in Stockholm, the museum announced today. The work has largely gone unseen by the public until now. Titled The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (1607), the altarpiece is set in a palatial interior and shows…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Image-credit-Kayhl-Cooper_01.jpg?w=1000″] Choreographer Alexa West wants to see you work. “So much of dance is supposed to hide how hard it is,” she told me. “All the dancers I work with are interested in pushing themselves, so we play with making material that allows them—or doesn’t allow them—to do the dance successfully. The labor…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1236892839.jpg?w=1024″] In a surprising turnabout, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art canceled a John Galliano exhibition that was due to open next spring, in what would have been the Costume Institute‘s big May 2027 show, held in tandem with the notorious Met Gala. The show had faced controversy from the start, as many…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GettyImages-1167776220.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Ahead of its public opening, the British Museum privately hosted billionaire tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel for a VIP viewing of the Bayeux Tapestry. London’s Science Museum is ending its 25-year relationship with oil giant BP.  The Met’s decision to honor…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WMAA9084_66_2_cropped_lpr.jpg?w=1024″] Want to know which way the winds of the artistic moment are blowing? A reliable way to answer that question is to look at what museums are exhibiting. In the shows on tap for the fall, there’s a clear interest in how best to survive the turbulence and violence in much of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/486510561.jpg?w=1024″] A range of politicians and public figures have criticized the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for its forthcoming controversial John Galliano show, including dealer Arne Glimcher, the founder of Pace Gallery, one of the biggest such entreprises in the world. A New York Times report published on Friday revealed that…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-535503059.jpg?w=1024″] The foundation established by Robert Indiana to preserve his legacy is selling the artist’s longtime home on the Maine island of Vinalhaven, despite instructions in his will that the property be transformed into an art space open to the public. The Star of Hope Foundation, as the foundation is called, listed this…